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A comment on Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media. Parent comment

Re:Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media by Ragnarork on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:54AM (#22245708)
Deep fakes are a thing. Fake news are a thing. Not sure what's achieved by pointing out some fantasized "hysteria" of the media about it, especially when that bundles up everyone in the same basket, although some of these are actually relying on these methods to push their views.

Attempting to label these so people aren't manipulated by it is something that deserves praise.

It's not a free pass of course, it does seem insanely hard, and it better materializes into something concrete with a real impact that does solve the issues at hand.

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Re:Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media by kmlx on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:15AM (#22245817)
> Attempting to label these so people aren't manipulated by it is something that deserves praise.

it's pretty incredible how we went from "give people the benefit of the doubt" to "people are manipulated".

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Re:Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media by Ragnarork on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:19AM (#22246461)
I admit I could have phrased it better. What I implied is that the end result has been that people got manipulated by such techniques (which I don't blame them for, as these methods have been engineered to be extremely persuasive and credible-looking).

I did not imply that everyone was de-facto manipulated by those. Only that it can already happen.

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Re:Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media by finnthehuman on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:33AM (#22246549)
>label these so people aren't manipulated by it is something that deserves praise.

Except for all the purposefully manipulative things they allow on their platform and don't label or attempt to debunk.

You could say they're targeting the biggest problem first, but twitter isn't going to touch politician's tweets or the mainstream news en mass. If you're worried about the average twitter users' critical thinking skills, don't you think those important-sounding sources of information should be THE key targets of a anti-misleading or anti-manipulative campaigns?

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